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Subject:
Security ERRATA for tar on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:10:04 -0500
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Synopsis:	Moderate: tar security update
Issue date:	2007-08-23
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-4131

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives.
A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitrary
files to which the user running GNU tar had write access. (CVE-2007-4131)

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.src.rpm
   i386:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
	tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.src.rpm
   i386:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
	tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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